SynthesisFrontiers in psychology2019
Instrument Playing as a Cognitive Intervention Task for Older Adults: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.
Synthesis in Frontiers in psychology, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT05856604 (Evaluation of Cognitive Effects Generated by Music Therapy for Older Adults With Cognitive Impairment Living in Care Homes - a Randomized Control Trial), which is not on this map. Cited by 19 papers.
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Evaluation of Cognitive Effects Generated by Music Therapy for Older Adults With Cognitive Impairment Living in Care Homes - a Randomized Control Trial
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19 citing papers in PubMed.
- Acquisition of musical skills and abilities in older adults-results of 12 months of music training.BMC geriatrics · 2024Trial
- GWAS of Active Music Engagement Frequency in the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging.Research square · 2026Article
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- Understanding Links between Race/Ethnicity and Health: Does Participation in the Musical Arts Matter?Psychology of aesthetics, creativity, and the arts · 2025Article
- Never too late to start musical instrument training: Effects on working memory and subcortical preservation in healthy older adults across 4 years.Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2025Article
- Frontal GABA levels associate with musical rhythm production in healthy aging adults.Brain and cognition · 2024Article
- Can the Ability to Play Steady Beats Be Indicative of Cognitive Aging? Using a Beat Processing Device.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Enhancing cognitive abilities in young adults with ADHD through instrumental music training: a comparative analysis of musicians and non-musicians.Psychological research · 2024Article
- Identification and Illustration of Means to a Critical Assessment of Music and Health Research Literature.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Intrinsic Capacities, Functional Ability, Physiological Systems, and Caregiver Support: A Targeted Synthesis of Effective Interventions and International Recommendations for Older Adults.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Review
- Developing a digital music program for older adults with changing cognition: A program development report.Music and medicine · 2022Article
- Acute Aerobic Exercise-Induced Motor Priming Improves Piano Performance and Alters Motor Cortex Activation.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Simultaneous Dual-Task Interventions That Improve Cognition in Older Adults: A Scoping Review of Implementation-Relevant Details.Journal of aging research · 2022Article
- Musicianship-Related Structural and Functional Cortical Features Are Preserved in Elderly Musicians.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2022Article
- Case Report: Accessible Digital Musical Instrument Can Be Used for Active Music Therapy in a Person With Severe Dementia and Worsening Behavioral and Psychological Symptoms: A Case Study Over a Year and a Half.Frontiers in neurology · 2022Article
- Music Intervention Pilot Study: Assessing Teaching Methods of Group Marimba Classes Designed to Train Spatial Skills of Older Adults with Changes in Cognition.Music and medicine · 2021Article
- Is there a dose-response relationship between musical instrument playing and later-life cognition? A cohort study using EPIC-Norfolk data.Age and ageing · 2021Article
- Cognitive Intervention with Musical Stimuli Using Digital Devices on Mild Cognitive Impairment: A Pilot Study.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Article
- Differences in association of leisure time activities and cognition in a racially/ethnically diverse cohort of older adults: Findings from the KHANDLE study.Alzheimer's & dementia (New York, N. Y.) · 2020Article
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Abstract
The aim of this meta-analysis was to review studies that applied musical instrument playing as an intervention to improve cognitive functioning of older adults with and without cognitive impairment. English-language articles published between 1990 and 2018 were searched using electronic databases. Music therapy journals were also hand searched for relevant research. Inclusion criteria for participants were older adults, ages 60 years and older, and any clinical diagnosis of cognitive impairment had to be due to aging. Searches used combinations of the following keywords: older adults, instrument playing, and cognitive outcomes measures. A total of 10 studies that met the inclusion criteria were included in the final analysis: five studies with healthy older adults, two with older adults with mild cognitive impairment (MCI), two studies with older adults with dementia, and one study with both healthy older adults and older adults with MCI. The results of this meta-analysis demonstrated that different types of cognitive involvement were demanded from instrument playing. Furthermore, depending on the type of involvement, a target cognitive domain was found to be differentially impacted by the instrument playing intervention. This study supports using different types of instrument playing for interventions targeting specific cognitive domains of older adults with varying levels of cognitive aging.
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